| Grace.
A simple word, with enormous power. Grace is something you can offer when your lower instinct is to offer righteousness. Grace is a stretch for the soul but the balm your soul needs.
But what does it mean?
The word comes from the Latin gratia, connected with gratus meaning pleasing, thankful, grateful. There is thus a relationship between grace, gratitude and being grateful.
Both the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Cambridge Dictionary describe grace in similar ways: as smooth, elegant and controlled, relaxed beauty of movement, pleasant and courteous behaviour and a willingness to be fair and forgiving. And then: the kindness God shows humanity or kindness freely given by God. Grace is therefore a God-aspiring quality.
For me, grace is what enters when something more is given than circumstances strictly require.
- Forgiveness beyond what was requested
- More kindness than was demanded
- Beauty without force
- Dignity in difficulty
Even the verb to grace means to make something more beautiful or to honour something by one’s presence
Many of life’s challenges do not seem to be resolved as a mere mathematical equation: I did this, so then you owe me this. Sometimes, we have to let go of what is, and choose to be graceful or in a state of grace despite the nuts and bolts of a situation.
Grace is one of those one-syllable words like hope and faith – highly undervalued until the lack of them is the one thing creating an untenable situation in your life. One of those hidden golds, I like to think.
And so with that, it is the one word I have never been able to fully capture to describe the experience of Healers Academy for the soul. The word academy implies learning and of course, you will leave armed with a Life Activation wand and the ability to bring transformation to someone’s life, so, there must be learning.
But really, the experience is what is so hard to put into words – like the fragrance left behind after a breeze has breathed across an ocean, the lingering scent of flowers in a summer garden. These are all hard to describe. The experience of Healers Academy is something like that state of grace, a place where you can rest your soul, a place where, despite the harshness of life, you can rest in the middle of it.
If nothing else, you will leave knowing the feeling of grace, and the profound impact this healing brings you for months upon months after this experience. You are indeed in the holy temple of Archangel Raphael in these 5 days. Being touched by this beauty and grace is hard to describe.
It is, without doubt, an essential healing for all. If this calls you, this may answer one of the reasons why.
May you walk in grace.
May you too experience this in Healers Academy one day. |
